And Sundry (mostly about international TeeVees)

[meganbmoore]

 1.  Canada has cancelled Bomb Girls.  Canada is mean.  But Continuum is back?

2.  I have started watching the 2006 version of Fox Volant of Snowy Mountain.  I'm at the very beginning, with the obligatory backstory about the hero's parents.  While the hero's dad is engaged in a duel to the death, his mom yells that she's in labor and the other guy calls a ceasefire and is all "Yeah, dude, you better go take care of that.  Kill you tomorrow, k?"  Only in wuxia.

3.  There are finally kdramas I want to watch airing again-Nine, Gu Family Book,  and Jang Ok Jung-and I can't decide if I want to start them now or wait until they've finished to start them.  (I think Nine is actually almost over.)  The xxxHolic jdrama is also apparently completely subbed now, though I can't imagine how they'd adapt that.  Guess I'll find out.

4.  For the curious, I think Deception and Defiance are the only ones of the shows that I mentioned the other day that I think I'll check out for now, though I might check a couple others out on DVD.

5.  Revolution fandom and it's endless AUs where Charlie promptly dies and another 60% of the cast apparently disappears so the show can be all about white dudes having adventures can GTFO already.  (I mean, it's not all bad, but still.)

Comments

[meganbmoore]

I think I read somewhere that Monroe wasn't meant to be around for long, but they expanded his role because of his popularity. But they pretty obviously don't know what to do with him or Aaron. And I want to know who deliberately sets off cross country through even more dangerous territory than what we've seen so far, with only Aaron for company. I mean, he went with Charlie, but she knew considerably less about what was out there than anyone in the cast does now, and she was going on a much shorter trip to find someone who, according to her father, would be able to protect her, and Aaron invited himself along for that. Why not ask someone actually useful, like Jim, Nicholas or Nora, to come along? (I'd list Jason as an option, but I suspect Miles would flip out over that suggestion. He seems to be doing good with managing "I'll trust you to protect my niece in battle when I'm still close to keep an eye on you" at this point.)

I haven't seen yesterday's episode yet, but in the first 3 episodes back, I had the feeling that Nora's relative backgroundness was because they were getting in relationship development with Rachel while they could.

[mfirefly10]

You can definitely see that with Monroe. I think they had a basic idea of what to do with him up until his episode 10 confrontation with Miles but now it seems like they're just flailing. And Aaron...I haven't ever seen the point of him. His only real purpose in the beginning was to carry the pendant and that's over now. I hope once he sees his wife again, they writers will realize they have wrapped everything up with him and just kill him off.


This week, most of the characters took a back-seat so that wasn't Nora-specific. I think the next few episodes will be more of a tell but in at least one of them, Nora is kidnapped and I'm hoping it's not just to give Miles angst. It would be the perfect opportunity to reveal more of Nora's back-story and if they don't, I'm going to be very annoyed.